Abstract:[Objective] To compare the clinical outcomes of intervertebral disc replacement (IDR) and anterior cervical decompression and fusion (ACDF) for treatment of single-level cervical spondylotic radiculopathy. [Methods] A retrospective study was performed on 63 patients who received surgical treatment for single-segment cervical spondylotic radiculopathy from January 2018 to January 2019. Accord- ing to consequence of the preoperative doctor-patient communication, the patients were divided into two groups. Of them, 30 patients under- went IDR, while the remaining 33 patients had ACDF performed. Perioperative, follow-up and imaging data were compared between the two groups. [Results] All the patients in both groups had operations completed successfully without serious complications. There were no significant differences in operative time, total incision length, intraoperative blood loss, intraoperative fluoroscopy times, time to resume walking and hospital stay between the two groups (P>0.05) . All patients in both groups were followed up for more than 24 months. Com- pared with those before surgery, the VAS and NDI scores significantly decreased (P<0.05) , while JOA scores significantly increased at the latest follow-up (P<0.05) . However, there were no significant differences in VAS, NDI and JOA scores between the two groups at the last follow-up (P>0.05) . In terms of imaging evaluation, the overall ROM of the fusion group significantly reduced at the latest follow-up com- pared with that preoperatively (P<0.05) . At the latest follow-up, the IDR group proved significantly superior to the ACDF group regarding to local Cobb angle, C2~C7 Cobb angle and overall ROM (P<0.05) . [Conclusion] Both IDR and ACDF achieve satisfactory and similar clini- cal outcomes for single-level cervical spondylotic radiculopathy, by contrast, the IDR has an advantage of retaining cervical motion in some extent.